What is your favourite quote?
Posted by: Sniper on 14 May 2010
What is your favourite quote? Maybe a withering put down or something inspirational - maybe something humorous or just plain silly or something that motivates you?
Here is a jewell I stumbled across earlier today...
'Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour'? ~ Robert Owen
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by Dungassin
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Originally posted by Peter Dinh:
I hate women because they always know where things are. - James Thurber
Not in our house they bloody don't!
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The only reason they know where things are is because THEY moved them from where they are supposed to be. I think they do it just to annoy.
Posted on: 29 May 2010 by Sniper
There is often some humourous quotable stuff in the TV series Spooks...
Home Secretary: You know, back in my days as a student radical, our dreams were all about the glorious proletariat.
Harry Pearce - Head of D Section MI5: We've still got those dreams on file somewhere.
Posted on: 29 May 2010 by Peter Dinh
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Originally posted by BigH47:
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Originally posted by Peter Dinh:
I hate women because they always know where things are. - James Thurber
Not in our house they bloody don't!
Lol.
Posted on: 29 May 2010 by Manni
"Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos. Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris." ( Ovid )
Translation: As long as you are happy, you will have many friends. If cloudy times appear, you will be alone.
Sad but true.
Posted on: 29 May 2010 by Onthlam
" Lead,follow,or get the hell out of the way!"
Posted on: 06 June 2010 by Dungassin
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes right to the bone.
Posted on: 06 June 2010 by Voltaire
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
Posted on: 06 June 2010 by dn1
There are many Sam Goldwyn quotes, e.g. "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on"
but my favourite is when the immigrant movie mogul caught people laughing at his (lack of) command of English:
"You think I know fuck nothing. Well you're wrong! I know fuck all!"
Posted on: 08 June 2010 by BigH47
A winning tweet announced at the Hay Festival:-
"I believe we can build a better world!
Of course, it'll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt.
Also, not sure where to put it." Eh? (winner was a Canadian woman.)
Posted on: 08 June 2010 by Mr Underhill
'When the government is powerful enough to give you anything you want, it is powerful enough to take everything that you have'
Gerald Ford
Posted on: 08 June 2010 by Richard Dane
Perhaps not a favourite quote, and certainly lacking humour, but one that in retrospect shows incredible foresight:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Thomas Jefferson (attributed) (1743 - 1826)
